Time to move std.experimental.checkedint to std.checkedint ?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/31/21 3:58 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 07:52:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/31/2021 12:31 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> - Silicon will keep getting faster and cheaper with time
>>>
>>> - A 7% or a 14% or even a +100% slowdown is relatively insignificant 
>>> considering the overall march of progress - Moore's law, but also 
>>> other factors such as the average size and complexity of programs, 
>>> which will also keep increasing as people expect software to do more 
>>> things, which will drown out such "one-time" slowdowns as integer 
>>> overflow checks
>>
>> If you're running a data center, 1% translates to millions of dollars.
> 
> You would think someone would have told that to all the companies 
> running their services written in Ruby, JavaScript, etc.

Funny how things work out isn't it :o).

> Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case.

It is. I know because I collaborated with the provisioning team at Facebook.